All 8 Uses of
complacent
in
The House of Mirth
- Indeed, he gradually came to regard it as such, and to feel a sense of personal complacency when he chanced on any reference to the Gryce Americana.†
Chpt 1.2
- Such an assurance would usually have restored Mrs. Trenor's complacency; but on this occasion it did not chase the cloud from her brow.†
Chpt 1.4
- To listen to his stories, to receive his confidences and laugh at his jokes, seemed for the moment all that was required of her, and the complacency with which her hostess regarded these attentions freed them of the least hint of ambiguity.†
Chpt 1.8
- The sight of Selden's dark head, in a pew almost facing her, disturbed for a moment the balance of her complacency.
Chpt 1.8 *complacency = contentment (unworried satisfaction)
- She revolted from the complacent ugliness of Mrs. Peniston's black walnut, from the slippery gloss of the vestibule tiles, and the mingled odour of sapolio and furniture-polish that met her at the door.†
Chpt 1.9
- Mrs. Bry's admiration was a mirror in which Lily's self-complacency recovered its lost outline.†
Chpt 1.10
- Lily, who considered herself above narrow prejudices, had not imagined that the fact of letting Gus Trenor make a little money for her would ever disturb her self-complacency.†
Chpt 1.12
- Lily saw this now in Mrs. Gormer's unconcealable complacency, and in the happy irrelevance with which, for the next day or two, she quoted Bertha's opinions and speculated on the origin of her gown.†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault